For somebody who’s almost as full of themself as I am, you’d think that she’d at least have a different portrayal of herself within her own mindscape. Like a benevolent Goddess who sometimes does the Nelson Muntz laugh at us when we go down.
I’ll copy-paste my idea from another thread:
Why do exterminatus? For 90 billion city, spread of cultists and their control over it’s territory very limited and fairly contained by imperium forces.
I think by design we don’t have a clear picture of the full situation on Atoma… there could be many reasons for Exterminatus. From the Grey Knights point of view all are corrupted already…
Mortis Trial memory also has it as being recommended already…
Further name speculations… since Zola’s memories spelling are typically off “Agustine” to in game “Orgustine” looking outside actual spellings and more of how its sounded out in game.
Mourning Star:The biblical ‘Morning Star’ title for the devil or lucifer
The ship is often referred to as cursed, with blessing seals on our air purifier systems….More of a hint were… not entirely the good guys… the ship is so cursed we have purity seals on our Air conditions
Brahm:braham gender neutral father of many. As the ship family constantly extending to new members over their subjects…
If Grendyl is the presumed great grandfather Brahm he is the eldest father… also contrary to opponent grandfather nurgle. (mysterious voice also matched Grendyl’s in Arbites reveal trailer)
Its possible the first names have more meaning for the Brahms… and unknown of grandfather Brahms first name unless its literally Grendyl Brahms
Magali: biblical Magdalene meaning tower or fortress
Emora: and/or Amora meaning love…saw one reference of Armor as well…
Kharib:Karib, Close/Near/Intimate as the Mysterious Voice (Grendyls) care taker
Kharib is maintain the Mysterious Voice on the ship and drawing extensive power for his..”projects”
Sefoni:maybe Seth…+ Oni…. Appointed or Placed…. Evil Spirit or Demon
…she was also suspected of being a Tzeetch Daemon host….
Urmal: Who’s name means to join
She’s responsible for saving Rinda after we defeated the twins and has gifted her / joined her with Nurgle beginning to transform into something else… Plague Bearer? Maybe she’s simply joining the heretics with daemons and machines with daemons in general…
Rinda: (Rindr) Is a norse legendary giant wife of Odin (possibly nurgle in our case) who gives birth to several offspring…
Apparently Vox Intercept VI was related to Rinda’s survival and gift…set to private (likely will be released with next campaign map with Rinda & Urmal)
https://warhammer-40k-darktide.fandom.com/wiki/Vox_Transmissions#Vox_Intercept_VI
" … You will be the Herald of Admonition"
Urmal also has a few mentions in old event Communications Breakdown
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“If Lector Cathores bids it be done, then so shall it be. Will you really refuse him?”
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“I’m sure the noble houses believe they have us infiltrated. They are wrong.”
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“Do you see him? Down in the square! The telltale shimmer of a falsehood? Follow! Report on what he learns.”
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“Urmal keeps Cathores in check. But, for how long?”
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“Lector Cathores excommunicated the Krazgate congregation tonight. No warning, no mercy.”
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“I hear whispers about the great house Margrave. What does it conceal?”
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“We must keep Grendyl Blind. Suspicion is bad enough… knowledge, would be intolerable.”
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“Grendyl has informants everywhere. Make an example of any you uncover.”
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“We lost too many grimoires after the accursed Morrow stormed the cankered librarium. We must recover them.”
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“Nurlge is truth, for without him, death has no meaning and life, no purpose.”
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“The Abyssal gate remains sealed, high majestrix. It thwarts our every effort.”
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“Had to seal off the tragonda street temple. One of Urmal’s experiments got out of hand, so they say.”
Orthus Offensive Mission fighting Karnak twins
Orthus: In Greek mythology was a two-headed dog who guarded Geryon’s cattle and was killed by Heracles.
Ogryn obvi Hercules unfortunately not smart only killed 1 of the heads..
Misc references
Mobian Steel maybe inspired by Damascus Steel, a lost art of forged steel weapons. (was one of Beowulf’s later swords)
HeROT: the party hall Grendyl attacks in book… got nothing but ROT and symbolized civilization and order… of CHAOS possibly disrupted in past by Grendyl
Grendyl Mother figure… perhaps is Sefoni (water daemon!) and the Dragon Nurgle who posions Beowulf!
It seems if Grendyl follows his name’s sake he is destined to die and he did some major attack on chaos in Atoma’s past that inevitably breaks out… overwhelms us all!
OMG it occurs to me… campaign name maybe a reference…
Like the LoTR prophecy no man can kill me… so he gets killed by a woman… but maybe with an alien Genestealer / Daemon twist at the end?
Battle for Tertium is further developed for Daemons / Chaos?
Transmission mission, sending deployment logs of Terminator Squards and Recon Scout Drones to Grendyl’s “other operatives”
The Road to No Man’s Land primed for future for Genestealers with logo found in tank mission.
Potential Theory Spoiler Below…
…I forgot to go over Zola even after pointing out the spelling ><
I think she is actually quite more pivotal than expected…
This name never quite fit for me, very low energy name for an evil organization. But this crazy cult really does believe and wants to convert to grandfather Nurgle, to save the residents of Atoma from the suffering of resisting Nurgle… I think they are the vanguard and priests to a larger evil presence of CHAOS… If FatShark gets its story going… its going to be big!
There is Admonition prophecy Dev Blog: Ritual & Prophecy
“Power in siblings” to usher in the coming tide; we & Admonition wrongfully believe we have stopped it for now… but it was the wrong pair of siblings… something may happen between “Augustine” & “Wolfer”…Zola being destroyed by the “Vandals” yet still standing and “Beowulf” tearing off the right hand woman to “Grendyl” leading to his demise and real…DARKTIDE
Edit: Actually may end up being a different right arm, a bit of a radical redemption arc and an epic story if done right…
Misc hints from Dev Blog
…Maybe Zola can turn Wolfer and he will be redeemed… I do always like a good redemption arc… Theon Greyjoy and Anakin Skywalker… this would be such an epic twist sorry if my speculations ruins it -.-
Besides the names, journals are obviously giving us clues
Reinforcing the prophecy of siblings…
Rolling Steel… okay that was released before blog…maybe not in-game timeline as shows up as “Road to No Man’s Land” Campaign as 1st map. It is canonically right as Dukane arrives and is destined for her base of operations.
Eludes to ‘ancient’ sense of this conflict perhaps the last climax where Grendyl saved the Hive last.
Sadly not a lot of these journals especially recently =/
Seems Dukane’s Journal uncovered Admonition before Rannick and also mentioning the age of the contaminant
Funny the reinforcements of Dukane is asking for more reinforcements… next class? or needed for larger looming threat… or both.
Skitarii did come from Branx Magna… perhaps another can come from Incron - naval depot
Just for Reference…mostly Dukane being Dukane
As with some other characters…
Dukane’s name maybe purposefully mispelt to mislead… she maybe either is a reference to Cain (Spear Bearer, betrayer of Abel the Keeper)or his descendant Tubal-Cain (World Spear), Simply she is the sword and force of that is the imperial guard whether she’s a betrayer or by Lord Margrave will unintentionally betray our cause is to be seen.
Not sure what a Naval class would be like but possible source of reinforcements…
I’d prefer for Fatshark to just give Veterans access to Navis Imperialis equipment, to be honest.
Voidsmen - Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum
There’s nothing that a Navis Imperialis Class could do that isn’t already done by Veteran or Arbitrator. That’s why, in my opinion, the best solution would be to simply expand the Veteran Class to both Astra Militarum AND Navis Imperialis Veterans.
As for a dedicated “Naval” Class, I could definitely see Pirates working well as a “Rogue Trader’s Retinue” Class that utilises Xenos Weapons.
She’s asking for replenishment for the 2 IG regiment.
Incron is the 21st
Brand Magna is the 53rd
2 years and no update on this story. this is disgusting.
It been so painful even the lore tuber is beyond frustrated…
… only consideration is they may be pushing the GSC storyline first and have teams working on all those assets, enemies, enemy vs enemy interactions… may have been too ambitious for FS
I keep telling people, the game is on maintenance and the updates are gonna get less frequent. Just wait for the next update, its gonna be the biggest nothingburger there ever was.